hi rich. i'm not a chemist or engineer. anything beyond the very general and hypothetical comments i made previously are beyond me. this line of inquiry raises so many questions which i really don't consider myself competent to comment on (and therefore didn't).
keith is right about how volatile and dangerous nitro is. you can't store nitro on board and expect to keep it stable. surely a spontaneous explosion of the nitro while still in the reaction chamber would be inevitable. i think more of a binary fuel-type approach would be called for. thus my suggestion of synthesis and combustion in the same chamber (i.e. the cylinder). and again, i wouldn't know how to guage the feasibility or practicality of this. after all, depending on the engine, we're talking about maintaining anywhere from about 10-20 on up to 50-60 reaction/combustion cycles per cylinder per second under normal operating conditions. -chris b. In a message dated 7/18/05 10:04:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << There might be a pre-combustion chamber where a spark would be set to the glycerin/nitrox mixture, to create the nitroglycerin, then the nitroglycerin would be sent to the engine to be burned. Would the design be feasible and realistic? >> _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
